Occupy D.C. protesters cover the statue of Major Gen. James McPherson in the center of McPherson Square with a large blue tarp at noon on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 — the deadline the National Park Service set to remove camping material from the square and from Freedom Plaza in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Occupy D.C. protesters cover the statue of Major Gen. James McPherson in the center of McPherson Square with a large blue tarp at noon on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 — the deadline the National Park Service set to remove camping material from the square and from Freedom Plaza in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Occupy D.C. protesters cover the statue of Major Gen. James McPherson in the center of McPherson Square with a large blue tarp at noon on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 — the deadline the National Park Service set to remove camping material from the square and from Freedom Plaza in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Tents still remain throughout McPherson Square less than an hour before the deadline set by the National Park Service for Occupy D.C. protesters to remove camping material from the square and Freedom Plaza in Washington on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Occupy D.C. protesters Drew Veysey and Sam Jewler (from left) hold a D.C. flag behind Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton as she speaks to reporters following a hearing Tuesday about the occupation of McPherson Square.
Tracy Keith of Chapel Hill, N.C., works the information booth at the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square. Suggestions that the campers there move to join fellow protesters over at Freedom Plaza have not gone over all that well. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
D.C. resident Shannon Scannel is among the Occupy D.C. supporters encamped at McPherson Square, which the city would like to clear out. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
John Amick of the District with his Occupy flag gathers with Occupiers from McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza on the West Lawn. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
Forest Bailey, of the District, walks past a platform where a former Occupy D.C. encampment protester's tent has been removed as he carries an air mattress to another demonstrator in McPherson Square in Northwest on Monday Jan. 2. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
